Re: Do ISP's collect and analyze traffic of users?

2023-05-17 Thread Robert Mathews (OSIA)
On 5/17/23 12:06 AM, Mark Tinka wrote: On 5/16/23 16:55, Saku Ytti wrote: I can't tell what large is. But I've worked for enterprise ISP and consumer ISPs, and none of the shops I worked for had capability to monetise information they had. And the information they had was increasingly low resol

Re: From Nov 2017...

2018-04-02 Thread Robert Mathews (OSIA)
On 4/3/2018 2:37 AM, Bill Woodcock wrote: > What’s your point, though? Are you talking about Quad9, or about GCA? > > If you’re talking about Quad9, you’re misleading people by implying that the > quote you pulled from the Register piece pertains to Quad9, when it does not. > > If you’re talking

Re: From Nov 2017...

2018-04-02 Thread Robert Mathews (OSIA)
On 4/3/2018 1:04 AM, Bill Woodcock wrote: >> On Apr 2, 2018, at 7:24 PM, Robert Mathews (OSIA) >> wrote: *Group Co-founded by City of London >> Police promises 'no snooping on your requests’* > Note that this is _extremely_ misleading, since the group being > referre

From Nov 2017...

2018-04-02 Thread Robert Mathews (OSIA)
To be clear. *DNS resolver 9.9.9.9 will check requests against IBM threat database* *Group Co-founded by City of London Police promises 'no snooping on your requests'* By Richard Chirgwin 20 Nov 2017 at 06:58 The Register (UK)

Re: F Y I

2017-10-17 Thread Robert Mathews (OSIA)
On 10/17/2017 5:33 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: > you know, the Sci-Hub folk could fix this themselves... with some > authentication requirements... and probably by just unplugging from > the intertubes? *Hi Chris:*Apart from what the court's dictate(s) will be in technical and/or non-techni

F Y I

2017-10-17 Thread Robert Mathews (OSIA)
Judge Recommends Ruling to Block Internet Access to Sci-Hub The American Chemical Society seeks a broad order that includes millions of dollars in damages and demands action from Internet service providers and search engines. By Diana Kwon | October 4, 2017 http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles

Re: Academic Paper - ISPs Sharing Long Haul Infrastructure in the USN

2015-09-21 Thread Robert Mathews (OSIA)
On 9/21/2015 2:31 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: > The ATIS final report on the National Diversity Assurance Iniative is > decent. ATIS had access to proprietary carrier maps and personnel to > check things on the ground. Unfortunately, the NDAI report seems to > have disappeared down the Internet memory

Re: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project

2013-06-07 Thread Robert Mathews (OSIA)
On 6/7/2013 11:58 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > With all due respect, Dr Mathews, I *know* Valdis[1]' reputation; he's a > regular participant here. > > Who are you again? > > Cheers, > -- jra > [1] Note proper spelling of his name[2]. > [2] Note that I spelled your name correctly as well. I am

Re: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project

2013-06-06 Thread Robert Mathews (OSIA)
On 6/6/2013 9:28 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote: > However many of the people on NANOG are in positions to affect positive > change at their respective employers. > > - Implement HTTPS for all services. > - Implement PGP for e-mail. > - Implement S/MIME for e-mail. > - Build cloud services that encrypt on

Re: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project

2013-06-06 Thread Robert Mathews (OSIA)
On 6/6/2013 9:22 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > Pay attention. None of the ones *listed* are transport networks. > Doesn't mean they're not involved but unlisted (as of yet). *Vladis: * I thank you for waking me up in class! I am impressed - your finely tuned language hair "has pick

Re: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project

2013-06-06 Thread Robert Mathews (OSIA)
On 6/6/2013 7:35 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > [ . ] Happily, none of the companies listed are transport > networks: > > [ ] > > Cheers, > -- jra Could you be certain that TWC, Comcast, Qwest/CenturyLink could not be involved?

Re: Fyi...

2012-08-01 Thread Robert Mathews (OSIA)
On 8/1/2012 10:32 PM, steve pirk [egrep] wrote: > On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Robert Mathews (OSIA) > mailto:math...@hawaii.edu>> wrote: > > > It it is of interest... > > > https://www.change.org/petitions/from-educause-higher-ed-wireless-networking

Fyi...

2012-08-01 Thread Robert Mathews (OSIA)
It it is of interest... https://www.change.org/petitions/from-educause-higher-ed-wireless-networking-admin-group All the best. -- / * Dr. Robert Mathews, D.Phil. * Distinguished Senior Research Scholar * National Security Affairs & U.S Industrial

Re: real data

2011-11-07 Thread Robert Mathews (OSIA)
On 11/7/2011 12:01 PM, Jared Mauch wrote: > . It seems a quick view seems many TATA <-> Level3 and TATA <-> GBLX sets > of instability. > > Combined with the overall update levels seen over that 30 minutes, we saw > ~1.566M updates at route views. > Compared with the 24h prior (2011.11.06

Re: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses

2011-01-27 Thread Robert Mathews (OSIA)
George, Wes E [NTK] wrote: The second one from several months ago is still borked: "IPv4, ... the unique 32-digit number used to identify each computer, website or internet-connected device. ... The solution to the problem is IPv6, which uses a 128-digit address." So, first it was 32 digits,

Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool

2010-03-12 Thread Robert Mathews (OSIA)
Scott Berkman wrote: > So have other people noticed that the Ookla/Speedtest.net/Speakeasy > Bandwidth test often comes up VERY short on upload bandwidth results for > anything other than residential-grade asymmetrical services? The question to consider are: are JAVA based "speed" testers reliab

Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool

2010-03-12 Thread Robert Mathews (OSIA)
Joe Greco wrote: > Correction: it _requires_ Java. It _asks_ for your address. It seems > like it'd work fine if you gave it your neighbor's address. :-) > > I noted that I got wildly varying numbers on a laptop and an iPhone (there > is also an iPhone app) and the iPhone app doesn't ask for an add

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-02 Thread Robert Mathews (OSIA)
Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, Fletcher Kittredge wrote: >> Thanks for the pointers, Mikael. unfortunately, my Swedish is not much >> better than my Japanese... But it is a good start and I am sure I >> will find >> some sort of English description somewhere. > Here is a cut/past

Got this from Educause...

2009-09-03 Thread Robert Mathews (OSIA)
Apologies in advance, to those who, as administrators of EDU domains, may have already received this from EDUCASE... Finally, DNSSEC is going to make its way to ".edu" Are we ready? Has resistance been obliterated? Test-bed implementation.. Sept, '09 -- Original Message

Re: Issues with Gmail

2009-09-02 Thread Robert Mathews (OSIA)
Michael Thomas wrote: > I think that Randy might be conflating single point of failure with > "resilience". Google, distributed on every level as it is, is still > just one operator and in this case the lemmings faithfully followed > each other into the sea. We've been on an anti-resilience binge f

Re: Issues with Gmail

2009-09-02 Thread Robert Mathews (OSIA)
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Randy Bush wrote: > [] the internet is a wonderful > demonstration of building a reliable network out of reliable components. > > but what we have with google mail (and apps) is two scary problems > > o way too many users relying on a single point of failure. s

Re: Security team successfully cracks SSL using 200 PS3's and MD5

2009-01-02 Thread Robert Mathews (OSIA)
Joe Greco wrote: > [ ] > > Either we take the potential for transparent MitM attacks seriously, or > we do not. I'm sure the NSA would prefer "not." :-) > > As for the points raised in your message, yes, there are additional > problems with clients that have not taken this seriously. It